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Does Garlic give you an upset stomach?

It’s no secret that garlic can add awesome flavor to almost any savory dish- and it’s a good thing that the boyfriend likes garlic because I almost always smell like it after being in the kitchen. (Eau de Ggarlic is one of my signature scents. )

One day in the kitchen, prepping garlic, my boyfriend, Aaron saw me cutting the bulbs and removing the little green stem in the middle. “Why are you doing that?” he asked. “Well,” I said, “when my sister lived in France, one of her chef friends told her to remove the stem and it helps in reducing indigestion caused by garlic.”

“That’s a load of crap,” he said, or something along those lines-and of course he is always right so we left it at that. A few days later, watching Avec Eric, (an awesome food adventure and cooking show with world renown Eric Ripert and chef/owner of Le Bernadin) he was prepping garlic in the kitchen, the same way I do and explained the same thing. (If you love cooking shows- Eric Ripert’s is one of my favorites- he not only travels to the source of the food, but also gives little tips and tricks in the kitchen that us normal, non-chef folk might not have known. Check it out!)

“HAAAAA!” I shouted, ” I TOLD YOU SO!” It feels so good to be right some times.

So prepping garlic in the kitchen the other day, I got to thinking. . .I know garlic is good for you, and there are even garlic supplements. But what exactly are the health benefits of garlic? So, I looked it up. Below are my findings. Who knew?

Garlic helps to:

Treat Hair Loss and reduce blood pressure. Garlic has high levels of allacin, a sulfur compound also found in onions and found to effectively treat hair loss and reduce blood pressure.